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[Being captain] required a steady stream of memos to be circulated around the firm (by uniformed messengers; these were pre-email days), and I did my best to lard them with incredibly stupid puns and many humorous riffs

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I was not big on going to concerts, for various reasons, so I particularly recall going to a Cream concert my sophomore year of college. That said, while it was either at Tufts or Brandeis, for the life of me I can’t remember which one (or how I managed to find the venue in those…

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My father was a brilliant and pretty complicated guy, and I could go on at length about him. Although a doctor, he was at least as much a writer (starting with journals he kept when he was in China during WW II) and did not suffer from a lack of opinions, or a desire to share…